MeSH definition : Methylene cyclopropyl alanine and congeners isolated from the unripe edible fruit
of the AKEE plant (BLIGHIA SAPIDA). Hypoglycin B is the gamma-glutamyl congener of
hypoglycin A. They are very toxic and teratogenic, causing a syndrome called Jamaican
vomiting sickness that includes a fall in blood glucose due to the interference of
FATTY ACIDS and LEUCINE metabolism which leads to VOMITING, liver damage, CONVULSIONS
and DEATH.;
Methylene cyclopropyl alanine and congeners isolated from the unripe edible fruit
of the AKEE plant (BLIGHIA SAPIDA). Hypoglycin B is the gamma-glutamyl congener of
hypoglycin A. They are very toxic and teratogenic, causing a syndrome called Jamaican
vomiting sickness that includes a fall in blood glucose due to the interference of
FATTY ACIDS and LEUCINE metabolism which leads to VOMITING, liver damage, CONVULSIONS
and DEATH.